There’s a gas station at 128th and Washington. Check around back – you might find a cool Peter Forsberg action figure.
If that is you, please email adater@denverpost.com so I can let people know here it’s been found. Send a pic too.
*Update – it has been found

As longtime readers of this blog know, occasionally I like to have a little fun, mix things up and have a treasure hunt in the area.
Today is the third such hunt, and it has a Peter Forsberg, Avs throwback theme, in honor of the recently-returned Foppa.
Here is a pic of some of the items that will be hidden around the area today:

Adrian Dater, The Denver Post

It’s an eclectic mix, taken from my vast Avalanche memorabilia vaults.
There are:
– Two Peter Forsberg rookie cards – These are the real deal Holyfield 1991-92 Upper Deck Forsberg rookie cards, with him in a Philadelphia Flyers jersey (he was drafted by the Flyers, don’t forget). They are fairly hard to find and should increase in value over the years, especially when he makes the Hall of Fame (and he will).

– A program from the 1995-96 inaugural season, complete with the added-in paper roster for that night’s game between the Avs and Flyers.

– A Forsberg McFarlane action figure, of him in a Flyers uniform from 2006-07. Very cool, and it was bought in Canada.

– A copy of “Mission 16W” the coffee table book The Denver Post and The Sporting News did right after the Avs won the Cup in 2001. I wrote some of it, and so of course it’ll be signed by Yours Truly. The pictures in the book are fantastic.

It’s not all Foppa though.
As well:
– A very rare Joe Sakic Sky Mint card from 1995, with him pictured in the black helmets that the Avs only wore for a couple of games in that inaugural season before the NHL ordered them to wear white.
Here’s one bummer about the Sakic card, which I bought at the All-Star Game last weekend in Carolina: My little yorkie terrier got her teeth into it. I know, I know, I was furious at the little girl.
There are a couple of dimples in the card. But it’s still in pretty good shape, and hey, you can’t say the card isn’t unique now.

– A VHS videotape of the very first Avs game, Oct. 6, 1995 against Detroit. It’s a very good quality tape, a great piece of Avs history. It had the CBC broadcast, complete with one of the announcers calling the Avs the “Rockies” a couple of times in the game.
One favor to ask: maybe the person who finds this tape can make me a copy on DVD and give me one? I know, I know: I should have a tape-to-DVD machine myself, but I still don’t have one. I’m too busy and too lazy to get my butt into Best Buy or Ultimate Electronics to get one.
Anyway, maybe the person who gets the prized tape can email me and get that thing copied so I can see it again some day. It’s truly a great game to watch for an old Avs fan.
Forsberg, of course, played in that game.

I’ve got the game on now as we speak, and it’s amazing to see the memories from that night, which I covered for the paper. John Elway is shown sitting in the seats of McNichols at one point, and wow did he look younger. Same with Marc Crawford – OMG.

This hunt could have a Northern metro theme to it, since I live in Thornton and it’s snowy out.

Here’s how it works:
I pick a random spot somewhere, hide the item (likely in a plastic baggy) and leave a clue for each item right here on this blog. First person who finds it is the keeper.
If you could, though, snap a pic of you with the item and send it to me at adater@denverpost.com. We’ll post them on the blog.

It’s 2:30 now, and I don’t anticipate starting to to hide the items until 5 or so. So stay tuned…

Terry Frei graduated from Wheat Ridge High School in the Denver area and has degrees in history and journalism from the University of Colorado-Boulder. He worked for the Rocky Mountain News while attending CU and joined the Post staff after graduation. He has also worked at the Oregonian in Portland, Ore., and The Sporting News. His seventh book, March 1939: Before the Madness, was issued in February 2014.

Chambers covers college and professional hockey for The Denver Post. He has written for the Post since 1994, after dumping his first 9-to-5 office job a couple years out of college. He primarily follows the University of Denver hockey team and helps cover the Avalanche.